Book ID: 93545
Courchamp, Franck, Ludek Berec and Joanna Gascoigne
Allee Effects in Ecology and Conservation. 2008. 76 line drawings. 20 halftones. 256 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
When a plant or animal become rare, individuals may suffer because of a lack of others of the same species, decreasing the individual's sucess, and increasing the likelihood of extinction. This book provides a concise and authoritative overview of the field, and collates and integrates a widely dispersed literature from various fields- marine and terrestrial, plant and animal, theoretical and empirical, academic and applied.